I’ve seen that in the past Corona SDK advertised using their product to create business apps. This subject sees to have died. The business app discussion group has been quite for years and seems to have disappeared. Is there a reason for all this? Is Corona SDK ‘overkill’ for a business app? Have new products surpassed Corona SDK for this specific purpose? I maybe interested in building a business type app and was wondering if Corona SDK was well suited for this.
Corona SDK can make a wide variety of business type apps. A majority of our users are making games and we have a long heritage of building a great game making framework.
Corona SDK is based on OpenGL. This means all of our routines to draw graphics on the screen happen in a graphics layer. Some business apps need access to native widgets and controls. The way Apple and Google have architected their systems, these native objects exist on a layer that’s on top of the OpenGL layer and it can be a little more work to make native objects work well with the OpenGL created objects.
That said, we offer quite a few OpenGL basic widget clones for doing tableViews, tabBars, switches and such, so you can build many different kinds of business type apps and many people do so successfully. Here are a couple of case studies we did on business type apps:
https://coronalabs.com/blog/2017/01/11/case-study-floorvana-by-shaw-floors/
https://coronalabs.com/blog/2016/11/29/case-study-relaxation-coach-by-aatos-media/
We also have a business app sample that can get you started with business apps:
https://github.com/coronalabs-samples/business-app-sample
Rob
Corona SDK can make a wide variety of business type apps. A majority of our users are making games and we have a long heritage of building a great game making framework.
Corona SDK is based on OpenGL. This means all of our routines to draw graphics on the screen happen in a graphics layer. Some business apps need access to native widgets and controls. The way Apple and Google have architected their systems, these native objects exist on a layer that’s on top of the OpenGL layer and it can be a little more work to make native objects work well with the OpenGL created objects.
That said, we offer quite a few OpenGL basic widget clones for doing tableViews, tabBars, switches and such, so you can build many different kinds of business type apps and many people do so successfully. Here are a couple of case studies we did on business type apps:
https://coronalabs.com/blog/2017/01/11/case-study-floorvana-by-shaw-floors/
https://coronalabs.com/blog/2016/11/29/case-study-relaxation-coach-by-aatos-media/
We also have a business app sample that can get you started with business apps:
https://github.com/coronalabs-samples/business-app-sample
Rob